Editor's Note: This article was originally published in January 2018, on the eve of the world premiere of Minding the Gap , at the Sundance Film
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Visual communication is always an unreliable universal language… — Annette Danto Whatever happened to the credo “If I can see it, it must be true?”
Dear IDA Community, I’m sad to say that this will be my last time filling this little corner of Documentary magazine. After nine years of service on
When she was a teenager in the late '70s growing up in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suburbs, filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain was taken by her
In 2000, I was a young filmmaker on my way to my first Sundance Film Festival. If I didn't already know everything there was to know about filmmaking
By Steven Beer, Jake Levy and Neil Rosini Archive agreements have much in common with every other legally-binding license. They must identify the
Dear Readers, The image on the cover of this issue—from Bill Morrison's IDA Award-winning Dawson City: Frozen Time—tells a fascinating story. It's a
Premiering at Sundance—and subsequently going on to win top honors at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, among other high-caliber fests, and an
"Going to Africa, living with animals—that's all I ever thought about," Jane Goodall discloses in Oscar-nominated director Brett Morgen’s latest doc
American flags, open roads, mixed drinks and Andy Warhol eating a Whopper: In 66 Scenes from America, Jørgen Leth's collection of cinematic postcards